General Discussion

Staff Writer Donna Desborough takes a look at the well known puzzle game, Puzzle Pirates.

How can you go wrong with pirates and puzzles? Well, you can't actually. Puzzle Pirates immerses you into a world of high adventure and carousing, all the while being light hearted and fun.

The client for playing Puzzle Pirates will probably be the easiest you'll ever download for any MMO. The installer is less than 500KB in size and the updates aren't a lot with the current version of the installer. It took me less than an hour to go from download to playing, including time to set up my account and patch the client.

The audio is very minimal throughout the game. This is a shame in some ways, such as when you're out on a boat, it would be nice to have the sounds of the sea quietly in the background or when in a crowded market, to have gentle sounds of people talking in the background. These kind of ambient sounds are mission though, and so the world is very quiet. On the up side though, you don't have a lot of distracting ambient sounds always running.

Read the whole review here.

"Captain, Fleet Officers, Officers, Pirates, Cabin Persons, and Jobbing Pirates"

You missed out Senior officers

As for the game, played it for over a year and really enjoyed it, only stopped because I'm more into Pirates of the Buring sea now, great MMO good to just and have fun, the Economy is actually really good as everything and I mean everything is made by the players! (apart from the raw stuff e.g. wood) Great community on that MMO on and one of the best I have seen seen for an MMO, if I was to recommed a sever I would say Viridian as it's free and the oldest free one. 

I've played YPP for over two years and do not understand how you can call it just a "Casual, not serious" MMORPG.  I could give many examples of this and think that just taking a look around on the docks of any random island is not an accurate description of the game.  There are many, many things that weren't covered in the review  such as Flags, Flotillas, Blockades, Atlantis just to name a few.  I thought the review was fairly accurate however clearly not detailed.